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There are sites available at Hay Brook. Already have one reserved for Friday and Saturday nights. Yes the full loop is about 8 miles so I'm not sure how this is going to work for the 10 needed for merit badges. Anyone wanting only to do the cache it's about a 4.5 mile trek.

There are sites available at Hay Brook. Already have one reserved for Friday and Saturday nights. Yes the full loop is about 8 miles so I'm not sure how this is going to work for the 10 needed for merit badges. Anyone wanting only to do the cache it's about a 4.5 mile trek.

I bet you could use a few of the cross over trails to get the other two miles.

There are sites available at Hay Brook. Already have one reserved for Friday and Saturday nights. Yes the full loop is about 8 miles so I'm not sure how this is going to work for the 10 needed for merit badges. Anyone wanting only to do the cache it's about a 4.5 mile trek.

Do you have to rent the sites? (because if it's anything like reserving sites at omaha beach, i would be very cautious about where i was planning to sleep...)

I was looking at the map wrong.
The Gulf Hagas Loop trail from the Appalachian Trail is 5.2 mile.
From West Branch parking it is 8.2 miles.
From Hay Brook Parking it is 8.8 miles.
I bet if you took the Gulf Hagas Cut-off trail it would add the extra miles you needed for the scout badge.

There are sites available at Hay Brook. Already have one reserved for Friday and Saturday nights. Yes the full loop is about 8 miles so I'm not sure how this is going to work for the 10 needed for merit badges. Anyone wanting only to do the cache it's about a 4.5 mile trek.

Just go around a second time and make it a 16-mile hike.

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the realization that there is something more important than fear."

The plan is to make this our 500th cache - wish us luck! I think we may end up doing this one on Sunday since Saturday will be a travel & camp set-up day.

Good luck . . . if you've never been to Gulf Hagas you're in for a real treat. Truly one of the most beautiful hikes in Maine . . . I went several years back in my pre-caching days . . . one of these days I've got to get back there and find Dave's cache.

"Courage is not the absence of fear, but the realization that there is something more important than fear."